Electric fly-trap.



No. 698,274. Patented Apr. 22, I902.- E. B. GREENE. p ELECTRIC FLY TRAP. I

(Application filed Aug. 29, 1901.) (No Model.)

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EDWIN R. GREENE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

ELECTRIC FLY-TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters latent N0. 698,274, dated April 22, 1902. Application filed August 29, 1901. Serial No. 73,684- (N'o model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I,1EDWIN R. GREENE,a citizen of the United States, and a resident'of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and Improved Electric Fly-Killer, of which the following is a full, clearfand exact description. V

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved electric fly-killer, especially designed for use in stores, kitchens, dining-rooms, and other places and arranged to lure insects through the apparatus by suit able bait and to then pass an electric current through their bodies to instantly electrocute them.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same,as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of my invention is representedin the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a face view of the improvement; Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a plan View of the shelf.

The improved fly killer consists, essentially, of a frame made of insulating material, such as wood, hard rubber, or thelike. The frame comprises a center plate A, top and bottom caps A A and intermediate strips A secured to the front and rear of the center plate A to form supports for the bait B,preferably in the shape of lump-sugar, as plainly in dicated in Figs. 1 and.2. On the frame are wound sets of positive and negative wires 0, the wires forming grids on both faces of the frame, as plainly indicated in Fig. 2, whereby I insects flying on the grid alight atleast on two adjacent wires, through which passes an electric current, so that the;current also passes through the insect, and therebyfelectrocutes the same. The positive andnegative wires are connected by binding-posts D and" line-wires with a source of electric energy, and in the circuit is also arranged an electric incandescent lamp E, supported on the top of the frame in order to prevent the fuse-wires from burning out.' The lamp when lighted "wires of the frame, asset forth.

also shows that the Wires are in some way crossed'or there is a'metal connection somewhere, as the light should not burn when the fly-killer is in perfect working order, as there should always be an open circuit. The electrocuted insects drop ontoa shelf F, suspended by suitable means G from the lower end of the cap A and the said shelf F is wound with positive and negative wires 0, electrically connected by the suspension means G with the wires 0, so that the electric current passes through the. said wires 0. Thus any insect alighting in the shelf is immediately electrocuted, and any insect dropping from the grids down onto the shelf and not quite dead is killed by the electric current passing through the wires 0.

The suspension means G are preferably in the form of hooks, of which one set is on the cap A and the other set is on the shelf F, and the hooks on the shelf are preferably open, so as to allow of conveniently removing the shelf whenever it is desired to remove the dead insects from the shelf. After this has been done the shelf can be quickly returned to its position.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1., An electric insect-killer, comprising a frame of insulating material and having a support for a bait, and positive and negative .wires connected with a source of electric energy, and wound around the said frame to form grids on both the front and rear of the frame, the grids inclosing the bait, substam tially as shown and described.

2. 'An' electric insect-killer, comprising a support for a bait, positive and negativewires connected with a source of electric energy, and wound around the said frameto form i I frame ofinsulating materlal and having a tive' and negative 'wiresconnected .withthe t I 3. An electric insect-killer, comprising'a support for abait, positive and negative wires connected wlth a source of electric energy,

foo I frame of insulating materialand h-avinga" and wound around the said frame to form grids on both the front and rear of the frame, the grids inclosing the bait, a shelf, means for suspending it from the said frame, and positive and negative wires wound around said shelf and connected by the said suspension means with the wires of the said frame, as set forth.

4. An electric insect-killer, comprising a frame of insulating material and consisting of a center plate, top and bottom caps, strips intermediate of the said caps and extending along the front and rear of the center plate to form supports for a bait, and positive and 

